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Sam Newsome

Born: April 28, 1965

Samuel Augustus Newsome was born on April 28, 1965 in Salibury, MD. He is the youngest of three boys. He began playing music at 12 years old when his family relocated to Hampton, VA. By the time he was 15 years old he began playing professionally around town with local R & B bands along with his high school classmate bassist James Genus. It was during high school that he became serious about studying jazz and began taking lessons after school with saxophonist Steve Wilson. It was Steve who introduced him to recordings of jazz legends such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. In 1983, after graduating high school, Sam received the Kool Jazz Festival scholarship to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass

Tubes

By Sam Newsome

Label: Unbroken Sounds
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dust; Strangled Duck; Grizzly Bear; Four Portraits; Blue Monk; Tubes & Keys; Helicopter Exit.

Take Five with Tap Dancer Petra Haller

by AAJ Staff
April 18, 2024

Meet Petra Haller Petra Haller, based in jny: London, UK, is a respected figure in the fields of tap dance and music. Honored as a Rising Jazz Artist by Jazzwise Magazine and mentioned as one  of Reader's Digest's “10 Female Jazz Musicians You need to Know" Haller has swiftly risen in prominence in the UK and ...

Exotic Ivories: Hard Bop Piano and World Beat Rhythms

by AAJ Staff
March 7, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on straight-ahead precepts have incorporated instruments and musical concepts from other cultures into their art. Some, like saxophonist Sam Newsome on last ...

Sam Newsome: Tubes

by Mike Jurkovic
February 25, 2024

Tubes, a riotous investigation into the sonic by outlaw soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome and provocateur bassist Max Johnson, burps to life with “Dust" and proceeds assuredly down its own peculiar byways and highways. It is a real treat. The track closes with Newsome's prepared horn pondering like a bluesman on his lone, lonely harp. It is ...

Just You Stand and Listen with Me

By Christine Correa

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Driva' Man; When Malindy Sings; Mendacity; Caged Bird; Straight Ahead; All Africa; Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace; Who Will Buy?; Tears for Johannesburg; Garvey's Ghost; Freedom Day.

Media is the context for the exchange of content

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – The Rains 6:22 2 – So Many Thoughts 6:11 3 – Traffic 6:19 4 – Around People 3:38 5 – Space Elephants 4:51 6 – Lullaby 7:31

flourish

Label: Kreating SounD
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. 2-4-1 (3) 7:31 2. Waiting (5) 10:43 3. Tunneling (6) 10:00

Esoteria

Label: Rightbrain Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1 – Grit 6:31 2 – Pushing 5:17 3 – Pulses 8:59 4 – Rise 10:53

Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sounds from my Morning Window; The Enigma’s Melody; All the Things You Are; The Two Faces of Samuel Augustus; How Deep Is the Ocean; Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged; Bittersweet Euphoria Part 1; Bittersweet Euphoria Part 2; The Storm Before the Quiet; Take the A Train; Dancing Like No One’s Watching (But Everyone Is); Serenading Seismic Waves; Skyward Lullaby; Lost in Traslation; Solitude.